Assessing the pro-poor effect of different contracting schemes for health services on health facilities in rural Afghanistan

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1229-1242

  Alonge, Olakunle ^a   Gupta, Shivam ^a   Engineer, Cyrus ^a   Salehi, Ahmad Shah ^b   Peters, David H ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Ministry of Public Health   (Afghanistan)

Author keywords

Community health workers; Contracting; Facility based services; Health inequity; Performance based financing

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNDING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERVIEW; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RISK; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; CLASSIFICATION; CONTRACT; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; MALE; POVERTY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UTILIZATION;

AFGHANISTAN; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; CONTRACT SERVICES; CONTRACTS; FEMALE; HEALTH FACILITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POVERTY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 84948414721     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czu127     Document Type: Article

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